Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-05-26

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artillery gallops up and down PcnnSyl.
vania avenue the canuouS boom at day
break, the bands play and the shrill notes
of the life are waited over the city by the
same brerZes which cause thousand flags
To huttcr. The Iurtv-iive acres composing"
the monument grounds are covered with
men and tents, and the stIlf backed sol
diers are placed on guard around 1t ~
though there was an enemy near at
hand. 4 week ago there was nothing
here but green grass AMI SllyCry waters.
The monument CaStS It's shadow only
ON a few sightSecrs and the solitude Of the
wall, aud the wide eNpanSe Of park which
reaches from the White House To the
Cupitol, was aS quiet almost rs Goidsmith'S
A, Srrtrd village. Like the palace of
Aladdin, buildings and tents have sprung
I'D i'm night, and now you will lind no
buster place IN the IHit,d States than here.
II il a city Of canvas. The tents are ar
RANGED in streets and squares Each Is
built upon platform OF pine, AMI the tops
or nearly all have flags floating from them.
Camp George Washington, II Is called, and
what a glorious place Tor camp. Carpeted
with the SoltcSt OF fresh green grass
warmed by the southern sun and cooled
by the gentle breezes which blow from the
Potomac now as they did when they
famed George WashingtOn'S cheeks, It's
every surrounding is that OF poetry aud
beauty. 1t is full of history, too, ami the
militia will 20 away feeling better acquam'
ted with their own country from
the contact. At one end lies
the bureau of engraving and
priptiug, the great money factory oi the
Government At the back is the brick az
ricultural department, and nearElt the
GREAT stone Smithsonian and the National
museum, each OF which Is worth trip
across the continent to STE. In the center
{ the camp. looking all the larger Tor the
little tents and little men l0ating around
II rises the gigantic Washington mOnu-
ment, with it's aluminium point -" feet IN
the air and its 80, 100 tons crowded upon a
base not larger than the foundation OF a
Pennsylvania barn. Its slope upward Is
so Gradual that 800 feet from where those
tents are standing house cOnld bc built,
earb side of which would hc thirty five feet
Ionu. and if it's top slOped of to the point
M which that bit OF aluminium now
i it could have three stories ten
feet high, and its view would
~ better than that ot any
observatory in the world. Standing at
the monument, the camp is spread out all
around it. At the north is the drill
grounds, aud back OF them the Treasury
Department, the snow white Executive
Mansion, and the State, War and Navy
departmentS in the biggest granite build
ING i'm the world. That great white, tomb
like structure over there on the hill, which
looks like a Turkish mosque whltewashed,
il the national observatory, and away
across the river You may see Arlington
where ten. zee was living at the time the
war began. and where the militia Will all
90 on the 30th of Nay TO honor the graves
of the soldiers in the cemetery there. The
Smithsonian grounds form forest OF trees,
and there are plenty of good loaiing places
and shady hooks within It.
About 100 feet or more below the monu-
ment RUS the Potomac, and the soldiers
are universally surprised at the wonderful
improyement going on upon the flats. To-
doy saw a game of base ball played on
yround which year ago was covered with
water. and hundreds of acres OF park are
being rapidly made out Of the OLD pNer
bed.
-.
This diagram which l here give VIII iur-
nish some idea of the location Of the var
ions troops. Fourteenth street separates
the Camp from the Smithsonian ground,
and This is the street upon which News
paper row is located, and which crosses
PsnnsvIyania eyenue at Willard's Hotel.
The winding road which runs through
the yrounds is n iavOrite drive of the
capital, and is known rs Executive
avenue; it skirts the monument and the
Potomac and goes from the White HonSe
through the woody mall to the Capitol.
The point A is the general headquarters
where Gems. Augur and Ordway hold
forth. 1t comprises a wooden barracks